Good day Adobe Community,
After wading through Microsoft updates in the last year, generally beginning in October 2024 and onward, regarding app Loading Error 0xc0000142, along with AI analysis if this trend continues, the realization of Premiere Pro being usable on Windows Enterprise, has been and may continue to be problematic, not to mention obsolete.
But first, yet another scenario we experienced with a recent Microsoft update, scenarios that have occurred many times over in the last year. Although other Adobe apps are affected, I will mainly focus on Premiere Pro. The latest version was working just fine, and on all Dell PCs using Windows Enterprise. Then along came, and in real-time after a reboot, Microsoft update 2025-11 Security Update (KB5068861) (26100.7171). After this update, we had to roll back to seven (that is the number SEVEN!!) versions of Premiere Pro that uses the older runtime.
IT looked into this issue and narrowed down that Microsoft changed DDLs that Premiere Pro could not work with, and therefore, led to app crashing.
Now let’s move forward in time, about 12 to 18 months from now. In theory, yet very much literally, if this trend continues, the newest Premiere Pro versions will only be available using the newest runtimes. The old versions would phase out. Even if Adobe did support the older versions, new hardware with software may not? Basically, anyone in this situation is paying for an outdated version of Creative Cloud, especially Premiere Pro, the mission critical editor.
Shifting to the present time, maybe four weeks later, Adobe delivers another update that works with the new Microsoft update(s). And then I can 99.99% guarantee, Microsoft will follow up with an update that trashes the new Premiere Pro version for the Enterprise environment. To say the least, this is a very severe breakdown of Q&A.
The first option is to report this issue to the FTC and this posting would be a part of that report, as multiple industries are affected, including but not unlimited to: Media & Entertainment; Marketing & Advertising; Education & Training; Corporate Communications; Finance & Banking; Healthcare; Aviation & Transportation; Government & Public Service; etc.; using Microsoft Windows Enterprise.
Yet, in regards to loading Adobe apps on the Windows Home edition, none of these errors occur. You would think the premium version of Microsoft’s OS is much more reliable rather than chaotic.
Other choices consist of, but not unlimited to:
- Switch to DaVinci Resolve, which would be a staggering workflow nightmare change, presently not having a separate Media Encoder program, we would have to find a Photoshop replacement for menu construction, use Fusion to completely redesign all the motion graphics title cards, and replace all audio mixing, mastering and backup and field recording with another DAW, rather than using Audition. It’s absurd we would have to do this, but Microsoft has been throwing so many MMA brutal punches at CC apps, it has the appearance of raging anger. So, in this case scenario, Adobe would lose out.
- Switch to using Apple editing machines and interconnect them to the present Enterprise IT infrastructure. In this case scenario, Dell would lose out, and we would lose out, because we get hefty discounts when purchasing Dell PCs. Furthermore, PCs are so peripheral flexible, you can throw anything on a PC!
- Purchase PCs that use Windows Home edition and integrate them with the present Enterprise IT infrastructure. IT would have to figure out a way to manage the PCs that use Windows Home edition. But would any reasonable IT professional do this? Yet this is the predicament that Microsoft has placed us in over the last year. Then Microsoft loses out because everyone is using Home edition to run the latest Adobe apps, since the pricier Enterprise edition crashes the latest Adobe apps. We could also opt to use VMware and run Home edition in the VM to run the latest Adobe apps. But does this seem reasonable?
- Adobe to reconfigure the runtimes to be highly morphable to adapt and adjust on-the-fly, Microsoft changes.
- For example, the latest Premiere Pro would load one way (the normal way) in Home edition, but load another way for the Windows Enterprise.
- A newer runtime would keep loading until it gets through all the Windows Enterprise checks to bypass and/or avoid Loading Error 0xc0000142.
- Adobe to create a Quick Response Team. This team would be trained and have the ability to devise a new and fully functional app version within 24 hours after realizing a Windows Enterprise update crashes any CC app. I would go as far as adding two Microsoft engineers on the same team that has Enterprise development and deployment experience, and they all work in the same physical location. It’s still reacting, rather than being proactive, but that’s Microsoft’s way of teaching us, that we can only react, not able to be proactive. Hopefully no one is on the operating table when this happens!!
- Devise a tech activist YouTube channel that exclusively focuses on Loading Error 0xc0000142 and similar Microsoft Q&A breakdowns and hit it so hard to quake and shake the PC industry and to make aware how many industries are affected, including providing case studies of how many labor hours and cost incurred. Okay, I can’t do that, I cannot be an activist. But, the thought did run across my mind.
- Any other possible solutions?
I could go on and on but there needs to be a reasonable natural stopping point, to which is not happening with repeated Premiere Pro and other CC app crashes after various Microsoft updates over the year.
If I do decide to turn a report into the FTC, this posting would be linked, along with the Microsoft Escalation Support Communications (keeping confidential, only for the Feds) that occurred in October to November, which was unresolvable, because the issue is way beyond any singular PC or IT environment. The customer rep was fantastic, but the PTB above him is in their own bubble world.
In closing, I have used computers since the days of the Commodore 64, and I started using MS-DOS on a Tandy 286 architecture and Windows 3.11 on a Gateway 2000, 486 architecture, which got upgraded to a Pentium overdrive. In all these years, I have never ever encountered such a long-standing issue as described and prescribed here. To say the least, citing and paraphrasing from King Solomon in Ecclesiastes—this is madness of folly of insanity—eventually, unsustainable.
P.S. I just received and internal update, it is highly unlikely we go the MAC route and certainly not the DaVinci route. So, if the issue persists, we would have to load VMware in the Windows Enterprise environment, and run Windows Home edition in the VMware, to get the newer runtime Adobe products to work. But the buck stops at Microsoft, it appears to be a Q&A breakdown as the main cause and the lack of the power an authority for anyone to do anything about it—because we live in a world where no one wants to take accountability anymore.
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